Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe - the guardian

On Sunday morning hundreds of politicians, government officials and scientists will gather in the grandeur of the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland. It will be a familiar experience for many. For 24 years the annual UN climate conference has served up a reliable diet of rhetoric, backroom talks and dramatic last-minute deals aimed at halting global warming. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/02/world-verge-climate-catastophe